'Eaten far in Concord'

Walden Pond, in Concord, Mass., most famous for its association with Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), whose two years living in a cabin on its shore provided the foundation for Walden; or, Life in the Woods.

Comestible, comprehensible.

  Heaped up in digestible portions

Thoreau had eaten far in Concord

   And still this knoll

With its floor of puce-colored leaves

under May’s green mist

feeds the visitor….’’

-- From “Walden Once More,’’ by Robert Siegel (1939-2012), American poet and novelist. He spent much of his life in his native Mideast but in his later years he lived in South Berwick, Maine